Tag Archives: art

June 16, 2016

Foxborough Street Painting Festival (Foxborough, MA)

By New England Nomad

Date Of Event: May 21, 2016

Location: Patriot Place, Foxborough, MA

Cost: Free (there may have been an entry fee to participate)

Parking: ample parking at Patriot Place, since the Patriots weren’t playing!

Dog friendly: Only if they’re service dogs.

Highlights: beautiful works of art

Home to the New England Patriots and New England Revolution, Patriot Place in Foxborough, MA, was home to a different type of competition recently.

For the past two years, Patriot Place (an indoor and outdoor entertainment area that features a mall, bowling alley and a host of stores and restaurants located next to the home stadium of the New England Patriots – Gillette Stadium) has hosted a street art contest. Squares on the walkway at Patriot Place were reserved for a number of competitors to display their best work of art. The works of art ranged from flowers to cupcakes. Mmmm, cup cakes.

The artists ranged in all ages and backgrounds.

I was waiting to post this until after photos of the winning art works were posted on the web site for the event. But, it has been almost a month and they still haven’t been posted yet, although the names of the winners have been posted. So, I don’t know which pieces of art won. But, they were all winners to me! There were some very creative works there!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

To see a list of the winners, and hopefully eventually the photos of the winning works of art, click here: Foxborough Street Art Contest.

5 Comments | tags: art, blog, Massachusetts, New England, photographs, Photography, photos | posted in art, blog, Massachusetts, New England, photographs, photography, photos, Uncategorized

May 26, 2016

Ross Parking Garage Murals (Quincy, MA)

By New England Nomad

Date Of Event: May 21 & May 22, 2016

Location: Ross Parking Garage, Ross Way & Parking Way, Quincy, MA

Parking: Not for long

Hours: Not many more left

Like a lot of the biggish towns that many of us grew up in, Quincy, Massachusetts has seen a lot of changes over the years. Businesses have come and gone. But, the one thing that has remained a staple of the area for so long may seem rather mundane, a parking lot. As funny as it may seem, it is the one place most everyone has been to, either in their car or their friend’s car. Or, for some other reason people may not want to divulge.

The demolition of the garage, slated for the end of May, is just another example of the changing face of the Quincy landscape. The three story garage, which has 700 parking spots and has been around since 1984, will be replaced by a hotel. Even though it’s just a garage, and not a very state of the art or pretty one at that, it represents the changing of the city. And some people are pretty shook up about it for some reason.

Since the garage was blowing demolished sometime in the near future and the garage was being closed for good May 23, the city organized a block party and let some of the artists in the area paint some murals and art work on the walls of the garage the weekend before the garage was officially closed.

I caught this artist working on his mural

Here is the end result of all of his work

On the other side of this wall, I found this cool Quincy themed mural.

The road next to the garage was blocked off to traffic so people could congregate and enjoy the art work like the murals and art below.

Even the little kids at the block party got into the action.

The paintings in the upper levels of the garage were more graffiti than artsy.

“Be fearless in pursuit of what puts your soul on fire”(an unattributed famous quote)

I didn’t realize just how creepy abandoned parking garages can be until I went to photograph the Ross Parking Garage on its last day. It just doesn’t seem right.

Goodbye, Ross Parking Garage. You’ll be missed. Well, not really.

Please connect with me on Facebook: New England Nomad

23 Comments | tags: art, artists, blog, garage, Massachusetts, mural, murals, New England, parking, quincy | posted in art, blog, garage, murals, paintings, Uncategorized

March 12, 2016

Nashua Dodgers Mural (Nashua, NH)

By New England Nomad

Date visited: February 27, 2016

Location: 31 West Hollis St., Nashua, New Hampshire The mural can be seen on the east side of the Maynard & Lesieur building

Most baseball fans know the Dodgers were the first American professional baseball team to integrate baseball in decades. However, few people know it was the Nashua Dodgers (the farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers) and not the Brooklyn Dodgers that were the first pro team to integrate an American baseball team in the 20th century (Jackie Robinson, who would later become the first African American to play professional baseball in the United States during modern era, was playing for the Montreal Royals of the International League at this time).

It is said that Branch Rickey and his executive, Buzzie Bavasi, chose Nashua as the location for this New England League team partly because the city had a large French Canadian population and they felt the French Canadian people would be more receptive to an integrated team.

Along the side of the building with the Nashua Dodgers mural is another work of art. The mural celebrates the earlier days of Nashua. Holman Stadium, which is prominently displayed in the mural, is the stadium the Nashua Dodgers played in. It is still in use to this day. It is now the home of the Nashua Silver Lights of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.

The mural is such a pretty work of art. Unfortunately, it has sustained some damage due to people defacing the artwork.

Below is a walk through of the mural on the side of the building.

3 Comments | tags: art, artwork, baseball, mural, Nashua, New England, new hampshire, photographs, Photography, photos | posted in art, baseball, mural, Nashua Dodgers, New England, new hampshire, photographs, photography, photos, Uncategorized

October 27, 2015

Haunted Decorations (Salem, MA)

By New England Nomad

There’s something magical about Halloween. It’s a time when adults can still pretend to be a kid again, even just for one night. Even the most mature, sober person can forget their responsibilities and relive their carefree days just a little.

For the remainder of the week, I will be posting the remaining photos from my trips to Salem, MA. In this edition, I am posting photos of the various decorations, some other miscellaneous things and, of course, a few dogs from my travels in Salem.

Salem is known world wide for getting into the spirit of Halloween. Everywhere you look, there are decorations of the season.

Besides the vendors selling merchandise there are also games and other fun types of activities. This particular activity was meant to see if people could maintain eye contact with a complete stranger and possibly make a connection, even on just a platonic level. It sounds like a good ice breaker to me. The comments about the activity on the board are very interesting and humorous.

Salem is also creative in how they tie the season to other causes like this witch who encourages people to keep Salem “wicked” clean.

Even Witch’s Brew Cafe got into the mix.

Other stores and attractions, many open only for the Halloween season, decorate for the season.

Some stores have humorous names without even realizing it. Of course, this is a name of a hole in a barrel that often contains alcohol. But, it may have a double meaning..

This is why Salem is so great. The people even get into it. This resident decorated his or her residency and put out a can for donations for the Lion’s Club.

This ghostly figure was seen in Salem harbor.

Salem is also known for its art and not just during the Halloween season. There is art everywhere it seems. These paintings on Essex Street portray a mermaid and a fish-type creature.